"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
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"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
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"The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."
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"Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
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"Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth"
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"The most important time is Now"
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"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
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"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."
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"It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated."
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"The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience."
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"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power."
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"The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful."
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"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation."
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"The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase."
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"Everything depends on upbringing."
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"Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."
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"The Kingdom of God is Within You."
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"If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing."
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"Happiness is in your ability to love others."
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"A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages."
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